单词 | improbative |
释义 | improbativeadj. 1. Liable to improbation or disproof; not proved to be true or genuine. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > capable of being refuted traversable?1530 deniable1548 repugnable1578 refutable1600 improvable1604 revincible1633 confutable1638 convincible1643 rebuttable1646 overthrowable1653 disprovable1686 improbative1754 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iv. iv. 485 Where witnesses attest a deed, without knowing the granter and seeing him subscribe..the deed is not only improbative, but such witnesses are declared accessory to forgery. 1866 Guide to Elgin Cathedral iv. 226 Some respect ought to be paid to universal tradition however improbative. 2. = improbatory adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > tending to refute rebutting1600 anasceuastical1607 anasceuastic1609 refragatory1618 convincing1624 confutative1641 refutative1652 anatreptic1656 confutatory1685 refutatorya1686 disprobative1823 improbatory1861 improbative1876 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 44 ‘The form or mode of treatment’, he [Dante] says, ‘is..definitive, divisive, probative, improbative, and positive of examples’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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